Thanks to everyone who were able to attend our first event of the year! Also, thank you to everyone who contributed to making this a successful event.

With our first event in the books, we'd like to reflect on the event itself and solicit everyone's feedback on what went well and what improvements could be made. Here's your chance to make our meetings better!

This was a great event that went well overall. I appreciated the setup of the space (open enough to mill around for socializing, but a good demonstration area and seating). I like the loose format of the meeting and the time to talk shop with folks as well as the main event.

The 11am start time was difficult for me, since it's an hour or so drive from the southbay.

The gear swap was a good idea, but didn't seem to catch much or any interest.

I thought the demo was great, but a variety of fragging techniques would have been nice. A lot of us don't own band saws, so that wouldn't really help me learn how to frag. The fragging demo Rich Ross did a few years back was a bit more diverse. He used the saw on some things, bone cutters, a hammer to break up rocks of zoas, etc. He also showed how to glue different types of corals to plugs or rubble rock.

It was great! Members are nice people! Slideshow is a cool idea, too, showing things like where to cut corals with different growth patterns. Even if all of the corals are not there to frag, pictures could be useful and interesting. If no one has that already prepared I bet there are plenty of PowerPts online.
11am was great so I still had a chunk of day to do other things.
I really like how you told people to frag well in advance of the swap so they are healed.
I enjoyed talking with various people and hearing about their tanks. Lots of experience and interest.
Thanks to everyone who worked to organize it, brought corals and set up equipment.